Open Archives: Communities, Interoperability and Services

Workshop Program

8:00am Registration

8:30am Session One - Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative

Introductory Remarks
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech (15 minutes)
Historical Overview
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech (15 minutes)
Origins of the OAI and the current technical agreements.
Introductions from Workshop Participants
chaired by: Edward Fox, Virginia Tech (30 minutes)
A short introduction from each participant to familiarize people with one another and contextualize further interaction during the workshop.
Introduction to the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol
Hussein Suleman, Virginia Tech (30 minutes)

10:00am Break

10:30am Session Two - Technical Details

Experiences from Implementors
Simeon Warner, LANL/Cornell and Tim Cole, UIUC (30 minutes)
The OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol - Communities and Services
Hussein Suleman, Virginia Tech (30 minutes)
Communities and Services - Practical Applications of OAI Standards
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech (30 minutes)
Framing the afternoon's discussion and forming of breakout groups

12:00pm Lunch

1:30pm Session Three - Concurrent Group Discussions

Group	1. Building Communities	2. Technical Services
Chair	Edward Fox, VT	Hussein Suleman, VT
Focus	Applicability of OAI to community building, how the OAI standards can be used to support distributed communities and what community support is needed to leverage OAI standards	Evaluation of technical standards and current and future directions of standards and services related to the OAI protocol
Topics	Support for different types of communities: ETDs Courseware Libraries Southern History and Culture Developments that contribute towards building communities: Metadata standards that are richer than DC Adaptation of workflow models to different communities Development of controlled vocabularies and thesauri Personal OAI (e.g., Kepler) vs. group-based OAI (e.g., E-Prints) Definition of community-specific selective harvesting mechanisms e.g. sets Community building: Social aspects of developing OAI-based community projects	Protocol evaluation: Experiences from implementation Efficiency Support for internationalization Correctness of implementations: XML, character sets, etc. Changes that could be suggested to improve on the protocol: date granularity, sets for each identifier, etc. Complementary protocols to satisfy existing/future needs Services enabled by the OAI protocol: What is the state of the art in service provision ? How can the OAI protocol be leveraged to provide more interesting services ? Support for full-text retrieval Support for protocol adoption: What technical support is necessary to support protocol adoption ? Controlled vocabularies: rights management Replication for high-visibility archives

Group

1. Building Communities

2. Technical Services

Chair

Edward Fox, VT

Hussein Suleman, VT

Focus

Applicability of OAI to community building, how the OAI standards can be used to support distributed communities and what community support is needed to leverage OAI standards

Evaluation of technical standards and current and future directions of standards and services related to the OAI protocol

Topics

Support for different types of communities:

ETDs
Courseware
Libraries
Southern History and Culture

Developments that contribute towards building communities:

Metadata standards that are richer than DC
Adaptation of workflow models to different communities
Development of controlled vocabularies and thesauri
Personal OAI (e.g., Kepler) vs. group-based OAI (e.g., E-Prints)
Definition of community-specific selective harvesting mechanisms e.g. sets

Community building:

Social aspects of developing OAI-based community projects

Protocol evaluation:

Experiences from implementation
Efficiency
Support for internationalization
Correctness of implementations: XML, character sets, etc.
Changes that could be suggested to improve on the protocol: date granularity, sets for each identifier, etc.
Complementary protocols to satisfy existing/future needs

Services enabled by the OAI protocol:

What is the state of the art in service provision ?
How can the OAI protocol be leveraged to provide more interesting services ?
Support for full-text retrieval

Support for protocol adoption:

What technical support is necessary to support protocol adoption ?
Controlled vocabularies: rights management
Replication for high-visibility archives

3:30pm Break

3:50pm Session Four - Presentations

Reports from Breakout Groups
(30 minutes)

4:20pm Session Five - Moving Forward

Moving Forward
chaired by: Edward Fox and Hussein Suleman, Virginia Tech (40 minutes)
Plans for realization of higher-level services and community-building within the framework of OAI.

Last updated : 26 August 2001